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Malignant melanoma of the stomach presenting in a woman: a case report
Vedat Goral1, Feyzullah Ucmak, Serdar Yildirim
1Department of Gastroenterology, Dicle University School of Medicine, 21280 Diyarbakir, Turkey. vegoral@hotmail.com.
Introduction:
Malignant melanoma is reported to metastasize to all organs of the human body. Although it is common for it to metastasize to the gastrointestinal tract, a melanoma located primarily in the gastric mucosa is an uncommon tumor. Gastrointestinal metastases are rarely diagnosed before death with radiological and endoscopic techniques.
Case Presentation:
In this case report the clinical course and treatment of a woman with melanoma of the stomach, without any other detectable primary lesion, is presented and discussed. A 55-year-old Turkish woman presented to our clinic with complaints of muscle pain and bone pain in the left side of her chest. During an upper gastrointestinal system endoscopy, dark cherry-colored, light elevated, round-shaped lesions were taken from her gastric fundus and from the first part of her duodenum. Biopsies from these samples were determined to be malignant melanoma by the pathologist.
Conclusion:
Metastatic malignant melanoma cases should be examined through endoscopy for gastrointestinal metastases.
